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Can Killed Off for Real apply to realistic settings, if a character appears to die several times, but somehow survives each time, until the final time where it actually sticks? For example, Bob is thrown off a cliff, but a later episode reveals that he landed in Soft Water. Then he gets shot and seemingly dies, but he comes back later and says the bullet hit a non-vital area. Then he gets blown into Ludicrous Gibs by a grenade and that's that. He never technically comes Back from the Dead, but there's still a pattern of apparent death not sticking, in a way that doesn't involve the supernatural.

^^That's more or less the reason I leave behind whenever I delete misuse of that trope.

Along with the above I've also used it for settings where, while All Deaths Are Final, a character has a tendency to cheat or otherwise escape death and then is finally killed. Like a villain whose Joker Immunity finally runs out.

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